Current Developments in Mathematics 2002
In Honor of Wilfried Schmid and George Lusztig
Published on 31. December 2003
Book
Hardback
289 pages
978-1-57146-102-5 (ISBN)
Description
These are the proceedings of the joint seminar by M.I.T. and Harvard on the current developments in mathematics for the year 2002. The organizing committee for the seminar consisted of distinguished mathematicians from the mathematics departments of both institutions: B. Mazur, W. Schmid, and S.T. Yau from Harvard, and D. Jerison, T. Mrowka, and R. Stanley from M.I.T. This year, the seminar was dedicated to Prof. Wilfried Schmid and Prof. George Lusztig. The 2002 speakers included Albert Bressan, Mark Haiman, Richard Hain, Stephen Kudla, Yair Minsky, John Morgan, Leslie Saper, Kari Vilonen, and David Vogan.
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1. One Dimensional Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws - Alberto Bressan; 2. Combinatories, symmetric functions and Hilbert schemes - Mark Haiman; 3. Periods of Limit Mixed Hodge Structures - Richard Hain; 4. Modular forms and arithmetic geometry - Stephen S. Kudla; 5. End Invariants and the Classification of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds - Yair N. Minsky; 6. On the Cohomology of Locally Symmetric Spaces and of their Compactifications - Leslie Saper.